Re: Have all possible events occurred?

2005-06-27 Thread jamikes
space? Is the world restricted to our views? (and I mean it broader than just numbers). Best regards John Mikes - Original Message - From: "Brent Meeker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Everything-List" Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 5:54 PM Subject: RE: Have all possible e

RE: Have all possible events occurred?

2005-06-26 Thread Brent Meeker
>-Original Message- >From: Norman Samish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 4:33 AM >To: everything-list@eskimo.com >Subject: Re: Have all possible events occurred? > > > >>>Norman Samish writes: Stathis, when you say "if y

Re: Have all possible events occurred?

2005-06-26 Thread Norman Samish
;t believe this both-alive-and-dead-until-observed stuff! There's got to be another answer to the questions that the dual-state cat resolves. Norman - Original Message - From: "Stephen Paul King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 9:06 AM Subjec

Re: Have all possible events occurred?

2005-06-26 Thread rmiller
At 11:07 PM 6/26/2005, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: R. Miller writes: "Stathis Papaioannou" writes: Of course you are right: there is no way to distinguish the original from the copy, given that the copying process works as intended. And if you believe that everything possible exists, then there

Re: Have all possible events occurred?

2005-06-26 Thread Norman Samish
>>Norman Samish writes: Stathis, when you say "if you believe that >>everything possible exists" are you implying that everything possible need >>NOT exist (thus refuting Tegmark)? Wouldn't this mean that space-time was >>not infinite? What hypothesis could explain finite space-time? >Brent

Re: Have all possible events occurred?

2005-06-26 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
R. Miller writes: "Stathis Papaioannou" writes: Of course you are right: there is no way to distinguish the original from the copy, given that the copying process works as intended. And if you believe that everything possible exists, then there will always be at least one version of you who

RE: Have all possible events occurred?

2005-06-26 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Norman Samish writes: "Stathis Papaioannou" writes: Of course you are right: there is no way to distinguish the original from the copy, given that the copying process works as intended. And if you believe that everything possible exists, then there will always be at least one version of you w

Re: Have all possible events occurred?

2005-06-26 Thread rmiller
At 10:22 AM 6/26/2005, Norman Samish wrote: "Stathis Papaioannou" writes: Of course you are right: there is no way to distinguish the original from the copy, given that the copying process works as intended. And if you believe that everything possible exists, then there will always be at least

Re: Have all possible events occurred?

2005-06-26 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Norman, You ask a very important question! As I see it, we need to show that mere *existence* is equivalent to "occurance". I would argue that "*occurance* is relational and contextual and *existence* is not. Therefor, the mere a priori *existence* of all possible OMs, Copies, Worl